Praneetha Manthravadi

Praneetha is a senior hardware engineer in the flagship Ethernet Switching Technology Group (ESTG) at Cisco. She is currently working on the cutting edge Next Generation Wiring Closet technology ASICs. She is also pursuing her MBA at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, focusing on marketing and entrepreneurship. She is interested in studying about micro-franchising as a way to reduce global poverty. In particular, she is focusing on ways to develop successful micro-franchise business models and getting people involved to make an impact on poverty.